In the UK there is a budget airline who a couple of week back were caught out "interfering."
When someone looked up a fare they were quoted something like ?120 but they waited a day before going back to book it. By then the price had risen to ?230 odd.
When they cleared their browser cookies the price mysteriously dropped back to ?120.
The airline were fiddling with pricing based on a consumer expressed intent that wasn't followed through.
i.e. we can infere you are interested in this flight as you looked at it yesterday so we've upped the price.
Several years ago the notion of inference as an invasion of privacy was nicely set down by Daniel Solove; he termed it (at least I think he coined it) Decisional Interference.
The problem isn't that inference isn't useful or indeed desirable moreover that i) not everyone wants it in every or the same situations as others and ii) that if the inference is made to benefit the inferer rather than the inferee then we enter all sorts of sticky icky territory.
The solution I'm afraid is a bit of a draconian one. As I mention on my blog HP will change the region encoding of the printer from any zone to another (up to 3 times) if you ring there support number, allowing you to buy ink in the region where the printer is physically used.
Once changed one can't use ink from the original zone (unless you have the cartridge re-chipped by a refiller).
As a note, if you printer is still in warranty do ask about having the unit swapped out for a new and correctly coded one - that was HP's first choice for me except my printer was a few months outside the lame 12 month warranty.
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Re: Inferences as such are not bad, but..
In the UK there is a budget airline who a couple of week back were caught out "interfering."
When someone looked up a fare they were quoted something like ?120 but they waited a day before going back to book it. By then the price had risen to ?230 odd.
When they cleared their browser cookies the price mysteriously dropped back to ?120.
The airline were fiddling with pricing based on a consumer expressed intent that wasn't followed through.
i.e. we can infere you are interested in this flight as you looked at it yesterday so we've upped the price.
Inference ~ Decisional Interference
Several years ago the notion of inference as an invasion of privacy was nicely set down by Daniel Solove; he termed it (at least I think he coined it) Decisional Interference.
The problem isn't that inference isn't useful or indeed desirable moreover that i) not everyone wants it in every or the same situations as others and ii) that if the inference is made to benefit the inferer rather than the inferee then we enter all sorts of sticky icky territory.
Re: Re: HP photosmart 3210
The solution I'm afraid is a bit of a draconian one. As I mention on my blog HP will change the region encoding of the printer from any zone to another (up to 3 times) if you ring there support number, allowing you to buy ink in the region where the printer is physically used. Once changed one can't use ink from the original zone (unless you have the cartridge re-chipped by a refiller). As a note, if you printer is still in warranty do ask about having the unit swapped out for a new and correctly coded one - that was HP's first choice for me except my printer was a few months outside the lame 12 month warranty.